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The useradd command

Delete users accounts and their related files.

Table of contents

1. TL;DR
2. Sources

TL;DR

# Remove users.
sudo userdel 'username'

# Remove users from other (ch)root directories.
sudo userdel -R 'path/to/other/root' …
sudo userdel --root 'path/to/other/root' …

# Remove users along with their home directory and mail spool.
sudo userdel -r …
sudo userdel --remove …

Sources

• cheat.sh